Crabtree Cottage, Umberslade Road, Earlswood, Solihull, B94 5QA

Crabtree Cottage is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Earlswood, Solihull, Solihull (B94 5QA). It has a recorded floor area of 68 m² (around 732 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The property has underfloor heating on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Other recorded features include a basement. Period features are noted in the property record. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history. The latest certificate (July 2019) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 68 m² it sits well below the postcode median (106 m² across 9 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs). 2 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 2009–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £330,000 is 13.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£396/sq ft) was about 40.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £290,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2010.